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making the grade

process within modern HIGHER EDUCATION, and also schools, in which the ‘faculty makes the rules’ and students provide only the responses which faculties formally require, i.e. they direct their efforts largely at achieving good grades, neglecting the wider purposes of education (Becker et al., 1968). See also BECKER.
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